Response Cards 001

Every Tuesday when I get back to work, I have response cards in my box. Some are folks wanting to be involved in the arts ministry, some are encouraging…others are anonymous. The anonymous ones are always great fun. I don’t negate what they have to say, I just won’t take it into consideration unless it comes with a name, an email address, or some way of communicating with them. I’ve decided to post them…the good, the bad, and the ambiguous. So if you want be on my blog, write an unnamed response card and drop it in the hat at the end of the service here at The Grove.

I will not offer a defense or explanation here regarding what folks had to say…people have opinions and I am not going to trash them here. I am going to post them though.

Just so you know, musically, here was our set list.

Not To Us
Nothing But The Blood
Glory In The Highest
You Are So Good To Me
&
Kindness

Here are the contrasts I work with:

#1 “The music last Sunday was the best we have had in a long time.”

#2 “Please have the worship team play more well-known familiar songs. I like singing along and like the older music”



Again, I post these not to make fun, but to illustrate how consumer oriented folks are towards what they expect out of church.

If you see anything they forgot, please, step up.

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  • Jonathan Murtaugh
    Funny - I was actually coming onto your blog to leave a comment about worship on Sunday...and here you have a post devoted to it.


    Anyway...I was just going to say that the dude on the timpanis/congos/and were those timabales(?) rocked the house. More specifically, the beat and accents he provided under the music was perfect and added a lot. It added another layer of connection/emotion to the music. Also, I usually sit in the cheap seats and his sound level was perfect.



    Lastly, got your comment on my tattoo treatise, err, post. I appreciate it; some of those things are obviously hard to put out there, but it's part of the process for me.
  • portorikan
    Love the cartoon.


    We are a consumer driven society. Give me what I want, or else. That's saddening but it's also exciting because if we can get people to thing outside of 'me' and of the benefits of others, well, thinks might start getting better all around.
  • Adam
    Jonathan, would you say his beats were EPIC?


    That's Scott Ellis. I told his wife the other day that he is a percussive chameleon....they are having shirts made. Thanks for commenting.
  • ThePuertoRicanSlant
    Like we have said before...and I will say it again...it's all in the definition. worship is NOT music!
  • ian
    when did the Word become not enough?
  • TimB
    I like hymns. I like to sing all 18 verses of a hymn. I would like it if you would stand behind a pulpit, wearing a short-sleeve shirt with a neck-tie, holding a hymnal in one hand and waving your other hand around to keep "time" (rhythm is from the devil). I would like this a lot.
  • .escamilla.
    more "well-known" song?


    but the set list you just typed out are the same songs churches have been singing for the past 5 years. how more well-known do they need to be?



    oh...they meant "hymns"...

    my bad.
  • jgutowsky
    hey. ran across you blog from aaron ivey's i believe. there are times i just want to punch the wall. my church, traditional, traditional baptist church. wanting to reach out to the younger families. therefore we start a contemporary service. led by piano (played hymn style, no chords, just music) we play "shout to the north" (1995) attached to "He is Lord" (1941).


    now don't get me wrong. these are good songs but to me it defeats the purpose. if we are wanting to branch out as a church and reach these younger families we have to make "worship" services the gateway to the church. these families are going to come to "worship" before they come so sunday school.



    maybe im just mad. maybe i just wish this baptist church had views more like mine. maybe i wish this baptist church was not so traditional. wait. its a baptist church. it will never not be traditional. pardon the double negative.



    you should send that lady who wants to sing "more well-known familiar songs" to my church. she would fit right in.



    ok. now i feel bad.
  • MamaSue
    um, hello, jgutowski? Just to let you know, Saddleback Valley Community Church? Music directed by Rick Munchow? Yeah, southern Baptist. So, apparently it IS possible.
  • Mamadebrick
    I LOVED THE SCRIPTURE READING. KEEP UP THE "GOOD WORDS"
  • Annie
    I find that so disturbing. I'm so burdened that you have to read junk like that every week. It's sad, but I think you are receiving it in the right heart. People just don't know it's not about them, so they mistakenly voice their "opinions" or "orders" for the next musical worship set, thinking this is what they're entitled to. I think you're doing a fantastic job, and I hope the comment cards never weird you out.
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